US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, during a press conference with German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock, following talks in the State Department, said that it was difficult for him to imagine the launch of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the event of Russia's “invasion” of Ukraine, TASS reports.

“Currently, gas is not supplied through this pipeline. And if Russia resumes its aggression against Ukraine, then, of course, it will be difficult to imagine how gas will flow through it in the future, ”he said.

Earlier, Klaus-Dieter Maubach, CEO of the German company Uniper, which is one of the sponsors of Nord Stream 2, said that the gas pipeline project, through which Russian gas will be sent to Germany, could receive a certificate for operation in mid-2022.

Nord Stream 2 is a two-line gas pipeline. The length of each of them is 1.2 thousand km. They run from the port of Ust-Luga (Leningrad Region) to the German Greifswald. The total capacity of the gas pipeline will be 55 billion cubic meters. meters of gas per year.

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